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Home My WebLink AboutFW: 2022 AWWA Water Matters Fly-In Please Respond Mike Plane From:Rob Bohling Sent:Thursday, March 31, 2022 15:23 To:Justin Ash Subject:FW: 2022 AWWA Water Matters Fly-In Please Respond From: Dennis Teller <dteller@meridiancity.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 7:07 AM To: Rob Bohling <Rbohling@tfid.org> Subject: RE: 2022 AWWA Water Matters Fly-In Please Respond \[EXTERNAL SENDER\] Sounds good, Anytime my friend….. From: Rob Bohling <Rbohling@tfid.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 7:06 AM To: Dennis Teller <dteller@meridiancity.org> Subject: RE: 2022 AWWA Water Matters Fly-In Please Respond External Sender - Please use caution with links or attachments. Awesome that’s great! It’s nice to have more time for “you” isn’t it. It’s crazy times in the public servant world now. Thanks for the info appreciate it. Take care maybe one of these days we’ll get back to getting together again for our meetings ??????! 1 From: Dennis Teller <dteller@meridiancity.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 5:35 PM To: Rob Bohling <Rbohling@tfid.org> Subject: RE: 2022 AWWA Water Matters Fly-In Please Respond \[EXTERNAL SENDER\] We have three locators doing Water, Fiber, WW, Reclaimed, and Streetlights. We don’t contract anything out. We are responsible for Water to the meter, Sewer to the Prop Line, Reclaimed to the Meter, Streetlight Drops from Pole to Meter, and all City Owned Fiber. I’m on 4-10’s now 7:00 – 5:30, Fridays off ?????? LOL Loving it! From: Rob Bohling <Rbohling@tfid.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 5:07 PM To: Dennis Teller <dteller@meridiancity.org> Subject: RE: 2022 AWWA Water Matters Fly-In Please Respond External Sender - Please use caution with links or attachments. Awesome thanks for heads up that’s great news can’t wait for them to start LOL! You have 3 locators employed by Meridian doing water , sewer , and irrigation? Street lights? Fiber? What all are you responsible for and do you contract any of that out? You can answer tomorrow go home it’s after 5!! ?????? Thanks, From: Dennis Teller <dteller@meridiancity.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 4:40 PM To: Rob Bohling <Rbohling@tfid.org> Subject: RE: 2022 AWWA Water Matters Fly-In Please Respond \[EXTERNAL SENDER\] Hey Robert, Sounds like you are having as much fun as we are….. Hang in there! On the TDS thing. They have been in the Valley for a few years now and one thing to know is they are fast and furious. Footage and money are the bottom line. We and others purveyors in the valley have struggled with them on several fronts such as not potholing prior to bores, lack of communications in relation to project schedules, poor locate directions, excessive locates beyond their abilities, you name it. It got to a point where ADA County shut them down and 2 stopped permit issuance to try and get them under control. They had to correct installation issues and restore neighborhoods from their equipment damage. It was a mess. They are just getting ready to start back up again and we are fearing that our three full time locaters won’t be able to keep up. They expect to be running 12 plus crews daily at a rate of 30,000 ft monthly to start then ramp up to 50,000 ft shortly after. In order to keep up with things, we now have quarterly meetings with their managing team so we can be prepared for what’s coming as well as get daily project/work schedules from their contractors so we know where they are in town. So far things are getting better and everyone is trying to do their part to make things successful, but do keep an eye out for them crossing facilities, especially sewer laterals. Not sure if you are responsible to the property line like we are, but they have damaged them the most. Sadly, you don’t know it until weeks later and at that point customers are involved, its just not fun. Anyways, I’ve said probably too much, but just be prepared on your end to locate, locate quickly, and locate accurately. Boring machines are the Devil! Dennis From: Rob Bohling <Rbohling@tfid.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 1:45 PM To: 'Wiskus, John/BOI' <John.Wiskus@jacobs.com>; Chris Fredericksen <CFredericksen@idahofallsidaho.gov>; David Richards <DRichards@idahofallsidaho.gov>; Dennis Teller <dteller@meridiancity.org>; kacuff@cityofeagle.org; pat@svwsd.com; Terry Martin <tmartin@cityofcaldwell.org>; Tim Simpson <tsimpson@asotinpud.org>; Wiskus, John/BOI <john.wiskus@ch2m.com>; Tom Points <Pointst@cityofnampa.us> Subject: RE: 2022 AWWA Water Matters Fly-In Please Respond External Sender - Please use caution with links or attachments. Afternoon John, Hope all is well. Unfortunately I won’t be able to this year we are down a couple Engineers, the PW Director resigned, and we will be down 4 operators during start-up of the irrigation season this year. On another note, we have TDS coming into town, a contractor installing fiber to all the residences in the city. Has anyone delt with this? I hear they have been around Idaho doing work. Did it go well and all problems taken care of? We are also wondering do you have an employee that locates city owned utilities or do you contract them out to someone and if you do what does that cost? We have a locator in house, but the shear number of locates coming with this contractor is going to make it to where we need another locator, or look at contracting it out. Thanks for any info in advance! From: Wiskus, John/BOI <John.Wiskus@jacobs.com> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2022 10:19 AM To: Chris Fredericksen <CFredericksen@idahofallsidaho.gov>; David Richards <DRichards@idahofallsidaho.gov>; Dennis Teller (dteller@meridiancity.org) <dteller@meridiancity.org>; kacuff@cityofeagle.org; pat@svwsd.com; Rob Bohling <Rbohling@tfid.org>; Terry Martin <tmartin@cityofcaldwell.org>; Tim Simpson <tsimpson@asotinpud.org>; Wiskus, 3 John/BOI <john.wiskus@ch2m.com>; Tom Points <Pointst@cityofnampa.us> Subject: 2022 AWWA Water Matters Fly-In Please Respond Importance: High \[EXTERNAL SENDER\] Folks, As we discussed at our last IWUC meeting. Looking for interest in representing the IWUC for the 2022 Water Matters Fly-In. Date April 27 – 28 in Washington DC. Alternatively this could be setup as a virtual Fly-In from Idaho as well. th Deadline to get hotel in the AWWA block is April 4. Unfortunately this conflicts with the PNWS AWWA Section Meeting this year. If you are interested in representing the IWUC for the Fly-In please let me know as soon as possible so we can get you in the que with AWWA and you can get your hotel arrangements. The in person Fly-In would be for one person but a virtual Fly-In could be a couple people on an MS Teams or Zoom call. Please let me know if you can or cannot attend. Thank you. John See Tommy Holmes email string attached for agenda and background. NOTICE - This communication may contain confidential and privileged information that is for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any viewing, copying or distribution of, or reliance on this message by unintended recipients is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. 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